[Asterisk-Users] How does the PSTN termination indurty realy work?

[Jess Magnaye]

 normally, voip companies have their own switches, meaning PoP located
locally to resell minutes to other carriers, or they may have what they call
partners residing anywhere in the globe where they buy minutes from to push
their traffic to. in order for an individual to operate fully as voip
operator, you will need lots of back-up routes, bec most of voip operations
are not legal outside US -- and there are ppl not afraid of closing down
after 2-6 months because they already made money out of their routes during
the operation.  anyway, to put up your own company u need lots of contacts,
cold calls, (gateways if you want), and the most important thing is
softswitch+billing.  with softswitch u can buy/resell minutes between voip
vendors/clients. and of course billing is for your own sake, otherwise,
you'll loose everything. :)

good luck, and let me know if you got good routes/rates.  right now im
looking for cuba for additional capacity.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Albertson" <chrisalbertson90278 at yahoo.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 3:13 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] How does the PSTN termination indurty realy work?


>
>
> Does anyone here understand how these VOIP/PSTN gateway companies
> work?  There seem to be a number of small outfits that offer about
> the same service.  I'm thinking that a company that is really just
> one person and a web site can't possibly own and operate gateway
> equipent in 100 contries world wide.  I figure there must be some
> large outfit who _does_ have physical equipment installed in
> hundreds of locations that leases time to re-sellers like
> Nufone, Iconect, Voice Pulse, Addaline, xvoip and the others
>
> If this is realy how the industry works, then does it matter which
> retailer you pick?  Matter in terms of audio quality and reliabilty,
> this is.  I know each will have it's own customer support and
> pricing.
>
>
> > This on the heels of switch-1.nufone.net being missing out of DNS.
> >
> > We have customers that expect their VOIP to work.  Is there anybody
> > that's reliable?
> >
> > >I am having probelms connecting to voicepulse this morning. Is
> > anybody else
>
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